Colonial Foundations
This horrific leg of the triangular trade route involved the transportation of enslaved persons from Africa to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
Many Antifederalists feared this specific "clause" in the Constitution because it would give the federal government potentially unlimited power.
What is the Elastic Clause (or Necessary and Proper Clause?)
This 19th-century belief suggested that the U.S. was destined to expand its "unsettled wilderness" to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
In his First Inaugural Address (speech made by the president when they are elected), Lincoln tried to reassure the Southern states by saying he had no lawful right to interfere with this.
What is the institution of slavery?
This group was the one group still left out after African Americans were given their rights.
Who are women?
These two nations had FRIENDLY relations with Native Americans, often setting up trading posts with them.
Who are the French and the Dutch?
This individual wrote a famous pamphlet called Common Sense to convince the colonists and the leaders of the colonies that they should declare independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1820 agreement prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36°30′ latitude line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This action by President Lincoln demonstrated a major shift from his stance in 1861 of non-interference with slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Between 1610 and 1700, this factor brought by Europeans caused the populations of the Native Americans to plummet.
This constitution (legal document that defines the structure of the nation's government) proved to be too weak to define the principles of the United States after the American Revolution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
President Andrew Jackson supported this 1830s policy primarily to open Native American lands to white settlement.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This 1854 Act repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing "popular sovereignty" in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These two methods were commonly used after Reconstruction to thin the ranks of African American voters.
This document was one of the first documents that created one of the first representative governments in the early days of the Americas.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This concept was created when Chief Justice John Marshall (head of the Supreme court) deemed a law unconstitutional in 1803 in the court case "Marbury v. Madison."
What is Judicial Review?
This territory was given to the U.S. after the Mexican-American War in 1848?
What is the Mexican Cession?
In this 1857 case, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Many freed African Americans resorted to this labor due to a lack of skills developed under the institution of slavery.
What is Sharecropping?
This system exploited the colonies for their resources for the benefit of the Mother Country (Great Britain). The colonists so little to no benefit from this.
This was added to the Constitution specifically to address Antifederalist concerns about government overreach.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This law was put in place under the Compromise of 1850 that made even more restrictions on escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This radical abolitionist sought violence for those who believed in the institution of slavery during the "Bleeding Kansas" era.
Who is John Brown?
These three amendments were turning points in history after the Civil War that gave rights to African Americans. Bonus 100 points for those that can write down the phrase to remember each of the amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
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